The Walking Dead Season 2 starts today, Oct. 16th at 8pm cnt. On AMC starting in 45 minutes from this post time they are showing a marathon of season 1 leading up to the season premiere. If you have not seen it I would suggest watching it or at least putting on your DVR. Thank you and good evening.
I wish AMC would release an iPhone ap that wasn't completely and utterly worthless so that I could watch this. Like Cartoon Network or HBO where you can stream the shows over your phone. . . Basically AMC's ap is just short videos of behind the scenes crap. I say this because I don't have AMC, but I do have a friend's Dish account info that has AMC, which would allow me to watch the show on my phone (Or Google TV).
I actually started reading the books, and some stuff the show does better and other stuff it doesn't so much. Like the Father & Son Rick meets in the very beginning. The show butchers the hell out of those two characters.
Well they aren't that much of characters until about volume 12, when rick comes back to get them. For the beginning of the books the father and son are just another 2 that Rick is trying to help.
Well there was that one-shot they did, it's attached to the First Book compilation. I mean, they're just so crude compared to the book. In the book, the guy doesn't even own a gun and keeps track of his looting with the intention of paying everything back. In the show, within the first 5 minutes of being introduced he blows a zombies brains out and threatens to kill Rick 3 times.
Well in the book he does threaten to kill rick. But at this point I consider it two separate tellings of a story. Since, there was no CDC event in the books. And, only Allen, Rick, and "the asian looter" had been into Atlanta; not like in episodes 2-3. I just want my Michonne. She's all kinds of badass.
He doesn't threaten to kill him as far as I remember? His son hits him with the shovel, and he proclaims "No, son. This man is ALIVE." and he just spends the next couple hours apologizing to Rick. I also liked that he stopped Rick from shooting the lone zombie at the Sheriff's office because he should conserve ammo, and not raise attention on a zombie that couldn't harm them (Unlike the show where they just shoot it, although they did make it one of Rick's former acquaintances). Morgan's softer and more innocent and generous in the book, he just seems too hard and untrusting in the show.
I believe you are correct about that. It seems to me that in the show they are trying to merge different character traits from the book to deal with the not having to delve into too many people's backgrounds. The one thing I hated about the show was that they did not give the book character Allen that much of a justice. He was the person they leave on the side of the road. In the book he was a tragic character, having run from his family while they were all eating each other, and it made when he saved Andrea a more emotionally impacted scene. In the show he was just some dude who went to dig graves. How far are you? I finished volume 14 a couple weeks ago.
I only have Book 1, not sure how many chapters/volumes per book? I finished it with them being kicked from the farm and discovering the Prison.
Each book contains two volumes. Right now there is up to book 6 (Vol. 12) but Volume 13 and 14 are out.
Teaser trailer for the second half of season 2, with the show returning on Feb 12. Don't watch if you're not up to date, could be a spoiler or two about the mid-season finale.
So who watched the new ep? Apart from Lori doing some FUCKING DUMB SHIT (seriously that's just bad writing and characterisation and everything else), I thought it was a good ep. Especially the scene at the end., which Michael Raymond-James rocked.
The last scene of the new episode made me go FUCK YEA! Sheriff Rick is such a badass. And, I do agree with you about the Lori situation. I mean Rick has survived a gunshot, coma during the Great Panic, and Atlanta; I pretty sure he could survive a trip into town.
I think this is a new low. I mean, what was her point? Rick specifically says he's going into town to find Hershel, and then she decides to go after him without telling anybody to let him know what exactly? I wonder if the crash is a convienient way to get rid of the babby.
Hopefully it is a way to get rid of her... But I think that what will happen is The group that the Philly guy was with will come across her.
The last two episodes have just been absolutely fucking stellar, particularly the most recent. The tension of the final scene this week built up so fucking artfully I have never felt more nervous about a TV show in my life, so much that when the whole scene came to its apex I came and shit myself all over the place simultaneously. I also needed tissues at the end of the mid-season finale, but for an entirely different reason. I'm not sure why we had to wait like 2 months for that episode. Maybe we needed to heal. But I am so glad this show has gotten better where it could easily have gotten worse. The finale of the first season was such stupid sci-fi bullshit with ridiculous, unrealistic dialogue and the introduction of quite possibly the worst character ever. I was so angry at the lost potential of that episode. But apparently they hired some better writing staff to make sure that Season 2 panned out like a real drama rather than that mindless Dr. Who nonsense. AMC is hitting it home all the fucking time recently. I've also heard Hell on Wheels is sick does anyone watch this?
